Evolution Acoustics MMMicroOne

A well built stand is nothing special. It's not rocket science.

Prdprez, spoken from personal experience? Conjecture?

I personally believe in mechanical grounding and its positive effects on a system. I use a stand mounted speaker where the stand/speaker union is critical to performance. Without the stand, the speaker is just not the same. I have used run-of-the-mill stands on speakers in the past, and I can understand why you would arrive at those conclusions.

Hi Agear,
What do you mean by mechanical grounding? By this, do you mean coupling to the floor and speaker? (versus isolation) That's no more complicated than using a heavy enough stand and spikes that will lock into the floor and a hard connection with the speaker, such as a spike interface between the speaker and stand. Neither of these are very expensive to implement.
Or is there something more complicated to it that I'm missing?
Thanks!

Peterayer, well I spent a good deal of time listening to the MMMicros driven by the new BMC integrated amp. They played a tape of Hugh Masekela's Stimela, and I was just in awe! I have never heard this so perfectly captured. No doubt much was attributable to the tape, but the speakers never protested and captured even the thunderous drumming.

Prdprez, one of my experiences this summer belies your argument. I had the LSA1 Statement speakers on the sand filled steel and cheap speaker stands. I have four of the mindblowing StilllPoints Ultra Fives sitting around awaiting my new BMC speakers. I decided to try them under the LSA stands. I was shocked at the improvement. We are beset by vibrations in seeking realism in our music reproduction.

Prdprez, do you speak from experience? What stands are you using now? In the past? That will help frame this discussion.

Tbg,
Thanks for sharing your experiences. I am familiar with the LSA stands. I assembled a pair for a friend of mine. They are nice looking. And the fact that they come with the filler is kinda cool. But I would hardly consider them a "Solid" stand. At least the ones that I put together. They were a combination of wood and extruded aluminum, held together by short metal screws. Hardly what I would consider sturdy. So I'm not surprised by your experience. I know flimsy stands are not something you'd expect a lot of performance from. But my example is far from that.

Beyond that, adding a device like the still points is a whole other ball game anyway. Besides the fact that they are an isolation device, they are items beyond the scope of the stand.

So my curiosity still stands. How is it that the stand itself, IF built solidly (like Sound Anchors), makes that much difference and how does $1500 for threaded brass increase performance over solid welded steel? (~$350) We could argue the effectiveness of isolation versus coupling. But as far as I'm understanding so far that is outside the scope of the stand itself.

Anyway, I just want to reiterate that I'm not trying to be combative. I'm just looking for reasons as to why one stand will be all that different from another. (Assuming it is solid and well built!) Always looking to learn something!